I did defend Obama, but I didn't know at the time the kind of president he was going to be.
[*]- Promise of administration transparency, and failure to deliver.
[*]- Failure to push aggressively for a public option in the health care bill.
[*]- The war in Afghanistan goes on, we were supposed to have withdrawn. Cut and run, if you like.
[*]- Extending the Patriot Act for another year with zero revisions of it.
[*]- Operations of black prisons in Eastern Europe continues with no transparency
[*]- Instead of ending the so-called "war on drugs," he's INCREASED spending of tax dollars on it.
I'm quoting that more for Code4 than for Validuz. I don't know why the latter continues to respond to me in serious threads- he doesn't understand ANYTHING about how the world works, but is shrillingly vocal about everything.
I don't know, it's possible that he has a basic idea of how a bill becomes law, a very basic idea of what the jobs are of the speaker of the house, secretary of state, and the attorney general. It's possible he has a grade-school understanding of how the supreme court, the house and senate, and the federal reserve work. It's possible that he does in fact, possess a rudimentary understanding of the very basics of government- but I don't think he does.